Evian’s Shirts Promote Cannibalism

At first, I saw Evian’s new shirt on the female model and thought “oh, I get it, she’s pregnant. So she’s drinking Evian, not booze. That’s responsible of her. Too bad her baby doesn’t have a head. Maybe, in addition to giving up alcohol, she should have laid of the thalidomide.”

Then I saw the man’s shirt, and I realized “hey, babies don’t grow inside men.” Which is when I saw that this wasn’t about being responsible in your drug addled, 1950′s pregnancy at all. This was about eating babies. And then washing down their delicious veal-y baby bits with a refreshing Evian.

I mean, I guess the alternative would be “there is a child inside all of us” but that is both lame an impossible, because the child inside us only wants Oreo cookie milkshakes, not Evian.

As a thalidomide survivor I find this journalist’s comments on the images neither relevant or germane. They are, in my opinion, both ignorant of thalidomide and its effects, and offensive to disabled people.